The Good, the Bad and the Ugly corrections

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - 5 corrections

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Watch Tuco's lips while he's saying the "rich but lonely" speech. The words come out of his mouth before he even says them. [The whole movie is dubbed because of the Italian/English language barrier. None of the movie's dialogue matches perfectly because of the dubbing process.]

When Clint Eastwood blows up the bridge, he lights only one fuse but all of the explosives detonate simultaneously, despite being attached to numerous, separate pilings. [This is entirely possible, as anyone working with relatively unstable explosives like dynamite knows. It's called a 'sympathetic explosion' - the unexploded dynamite goes off when hit by the shock wave created by the first explosion.]

Near the end of the film Tuco (Eli Wallach) races around Sad Hill cemetery quickly reading hundreds of tombstones in his rapid search for one marked 'Archie Stanton' - in which he believes is buried two hundred thousand dollars in gold. Yet after having found it Blondie (Clint Eastwood) has to assist him in reading the word 'Unknown' marked on the grave next to that of Stanton. Tuco tries "Unk . . . unk . . ." Strange that an illiterate man had just managed to swiftly read so many names. [This is not necessarily a mistake because to find the grave, Tuco only really would have needed to be able to quickly recognize the letters A and S (since any grave with both a first and last name that doesn't start with these two letters, for Archie and Stanton, couldn't be the one he was looking for). He would only need to fully read ones with names that started with A and S and it's conceivable that he didn't run into that many, or any at all before he found the one he was looking for.]

At the beginning, when the Bad shoots the farmer, he falls down on his stomach. When the farmer's wife sees him dead, he's on his back. [We dont see the farmer falling but when camera switches behind the Bad, the farmer is laying on his back.]

In the scene where Blondie and Ugly are rigging the bridge with explosives, Blondie has the long fuse in the water, thus becoming wet. Fuses don't work wet. [Blasting fuse is wax coated and does work wet. However, TNT, which they are apparently using, was not invented yet.]